9:05 PM,
Jun. 27, 2013

Paul Flemming

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Before this month, the meeting would be of note only to the wonkiest of state-budget analysts and agency bureaucrats, even as millions of dollars are shuffled around within different pots of the state's budget.

But it's a new day of supremacy for the 14 members of the LBC - seven senators, seven representatives, 10 Republicans, four Democrats, all appointed by the presiding officers of the two chambers and called on to act on budget-tweaking recommendations sent them by the governor or ...